The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-02

bottom, ..why, you told me she waa
yourself"
81 know-but I-but shc-she mus
have gone out!''
.'Gone out!'' cried Mr.. Winterbot
torn. '.Come. my dear. there is No
mistake about that, we won't intrudt
any longer" And the pair swept ou
of the room.
Lizzie followed them. and she and
Nurse having come to the conclusion
that / must somehow have slipped out
of the house and perhaps gone to Mrs
Dacres'. went home. and was left In
my dark corner sobbing with misery.
What would Bently say? his best pa
tients MORALLY offended! was toe
unhappy to make any effort to attract
attention. but lay huddled up among
the old Lancets and Daily 7elegraphs,
when the bell rang again. and this time
some one went into the consulting
room, saying: every well. I vii!
watt
Icould hear this person fidetging
about, taking the books from the
shelves. and opening and shutting the
drawers in the escritoire.
Twas just thinking how inquisitive
it was. and how annoyed Bently would
be at such behavior. when the new
conner walked into the surgery. There
was wide crack in the wall. and
through it could see the prying indi-
vidual was young Jerry Winterbottom.
Was l ever to be delivered from that
family?
Thought he looked more than usually
flustered and odd, and he did not sit
sill, but pulled the bottles about just as
he had done the books. and talked to
himself in a rambling, incoherent way,
then he began to dance softly up and
down, first on one leg and then on the
other, and to make the most horrible
grimaces.
There is something to me very fas-
in people who make faces, and
l was watching him intently. and even
him a little, when sud-
denly he caught sight of an instrument
case on the table; his eyes lighted up.
he pounced on it, opened it, and drew
out knife. sharp and awful looking.
He ran his finger up and down the
edge, laughing all the time. Then he
went up to the looking-glass and un-
buttOned his collar-he was going to
cut his throat!
was so scared that could not artic-
ulate; but flung myself against the
door and yelled wild. unearthly yell.
This. coming as it apparently did
from nowhere at all, frightened him so
that he sprang back into a corner,
where he crouched. rolling his eyes
and trembling with terror.
kept on shrieking as loudly as ever
1 could, but don't believe the servants
would ever have heard me, and l
should have gone as mad as young Jer-
~ himself, if Timothy Donovan, an
Irish laborer, had not happened to
come in for his mothers medicine.
He thought Mr.. Winterbottom had
got an attack of "the horrors" NAL
ady with which he was familiar, and on
whose treatment he had ideas of his
own. He called in Edward, the page,
and between them they tied the poor
fellows arms and legs securely. They
had just finished when Bently APP
peared, in tine to hear my last feeble
scream before tainted.
The Winterbottoms were awfully
kind; they declared l had saved their
sons life, and that Bently saved it
again when he pulled him through his
! rain fever.
When Jerry was convalescent he
went abroad with my husband for a
six months tour. OF course l hated
parting from Bently, but 1 knew
was a splendid thing for him. After
ward he sold the Bradham practice
and Mr. Winterbottom helped him into
one in London where he is getting on
splendidly.
Young Winterbottom is different
fellow now; his father and mother let
him do just as he likes. and the conse-
quence is that he is going to turn out
n very good artist. His father hangs
the walls of Barrowclough with his pro-
and it is very funny to hear
him when he discourses on them to his
friends:
"Quecr fancy this of my boys, for
and daubbing; but they tell
me he's clever at it. and there's one
thing he need never see the inside of
the mills if he don't want, I've plenty
for both-plenty for both"
Jerry has studio near us in Ken
and comes often to see Us. The
most interesting thing of all is, that
he has fallen in love with Lizzie Dacres,
and they are to be married in the
spring. The old people are delighted.
Agnes Power, in NJ Y. Independent